Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-01-07
Ghe Pouseholo.
THOUGHTS AND HINTS.
From Our Country Home.1

! DIR. =. Weir Mitchell principle OF re-
storing health in cases of disordered di-
gestion is that of passive exercise and
abundant feeding.
If in tin cans containing preserved
meats or vegetables you discover more
than one soldered place, it is evident that
the can has been puncturcd to allow the
escape of gases caused by fermentation
Pretty little pincushons for the pocket
are made of velvet in the form of pansies.
! The lines of the flower are worked with
etching silk.
\ sure cure for warts is to rub with
sand-paper until they bleed and then rub
on alum. A few times cured Il very bad
seed wart for me.
Jails and State-prisons are the compile
ment of schools; so many less as you
! have of the latter, so many more you
must have of the former Horace Mann.
For neuralgia, acute rheumatism and
severe headache, oil of peppermint, oil
of wintergreen and oil of olives. equal
parts, applied externally over the seat of
pain, will greatly relieve, if not entirely
remove.
Kerosene oil and knife brick are excel
lent for removing rust from tlat-rons and
making them smooth. Dip IA flannel cloth
into kerosene, then into pulverized knife
brick; apply it to the irons, after which
rub them thoroughly with a clean cloth.
a few drops of ammonia in hard water
will not only soften it, but will remove
dirt better than soap. 1t is always
good article to use when bathing the per-
son, and the water in which it is diluted
makes an excellent stimuant to house
and other plants.
All rcceptacles for milk, after being
thoroughly washed so as to look clean.
still need to be immersed, for five MIMI
ties at least, in boiling WATER as. when
not so taken care of. there is a substance
left that is liable to poison the next milk
placed therein.
Warm mustard water-twO teaspoon
fuls of ground mustard and teaspoon
full of salt in a tumberful of tepid water
is an excellent emetic for one who. by
accident or design, has taken poison.
An unbeaten raw egg, swallowed, will
usually as quickly return and bring the
offensive matter with it.
Some posons act themselves as cmet-
les, opium for instance: in such case,
let the patient vomit while you are wait
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by giving copious drinks of warm water;
nausea on IA comparatively empty
stomach is very straining, so give tepid
water drinks to keep the stomach supplied
with liquid to throw up; it is on the
principle of rinSing out bottle until it
is clean. Meanwhile, put Il heaping tea
cupful of coffee into a pint of hot water
and let it boil we'll. After the patient
has vomited freely half dozen times,
administer this very strong, hot coffee in
teaspoonfuls or tablespoonfuls, if the
patient can take it, once in five or ten
minutes; As the patient grows easier,
give tablespoonful every fifteen minutes
for twenty-fOur hours. In all such cases
call physician at once. but do try to
keep the patient alive, even if the doctor
has to wait to take his slippers of and
don his boots. Ignorance of such simple
ways of saving life is criminal.
A nervous headache is sometimes
cured by taking out all the steel hair-pins
and letting the hair down. At the same
time, to take Il set of steel knitting
needles and run back and forth through
the hair, all over the seat of the pain,
will many times drive the pain away
completely. \ lady of over ninety told
that it was ''mothers remedy, and we
always recommend steel points if one
is subject to headaches, and it has cured
so many: but, if it is the stomach which
is wrong. steel points, won't do it."
Persons, or rather women, subject to
''har-pin headaches" Gas one guide mon
has named his wifes pains in the head
should try using horn or imitation shell
hair-pins. Headache is often relieved by
dropping Il window down at the top and
immersing the hands and feet in hot
bath; cold water upon the head in ordi-
nary eases is not the proper caper'.
Powdered camphor, mixed to IA pliable
salve with fresh lard or sweet oil is said
to be excellent for groups or colds: APP
/ ply over the soreness or ''stuiled-up'
! places, be it throat, chest or nose. Cow
er with flannels to keep warm. Dose
copiously with hot drinks, such as slip
perry elm teas; molasses, hot water and
pepper; hot composition; in fact any of
the thousand and one hot drinks every
body uses for colds; it would be as well
to use those that best agree with ones
stomach. The worst about all these
soothers of colds is, that they disorder
the stomach so sadly that some people
''cough it OUT rather than use any of
the nauseating mixtures. An invalid
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